Tuesday, 4 February 2014

We have entered the Digital Enterprise era.All the businesses are aiming
at reaching their Customers anywhere, anytime, any platform with any device.All such smart devices or physical objects that
are connected to internet & are continuously emitting data and
communicating with each other is called Internet of Things (IoT).

You will find all these objects around you in your
day. Your Fitbit wrist band is monitoring your sleep, waking you up at desired
time, tracks your activity. When you go out for walking or jogging in the
morning, your Nike shoes with built-in-sensor are collecting all the data and
track your time, distance, pace & calories burned.

All this humongous data is ideal candidate for Bigdata Analytics. Let us see how does 3 V’s of Big data comes into this scenario.
All the data which is generated by these devices or things is voluminous or
recurring at specific intervals.This streaming
data is “always in motion” so there is a velocity.The variety is coming from all different sensors
sending data.

Big Data will help make companies smarter, more
progressive and give them a business advantage. You can have better control
over your business with IoT by better tracking and better reporting. Let us see
some examples.

Sigalert.com provides sensor based analysis of
traffic on highways.This when combined
with Waze, a world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app, helping
drivers avoid the frustration of sitting in traffic, cluing them in to a police
trap or cutting 5 minutes off of their regular commute by showing them new
routes they never even knew about.

Great River Medical Center is one health care
organization that's connecting many of its medical devices into a network using
Microsoft's Windows Embedded, thereby enhancing the patient care by speeding
delivery of medications, reducing an average 1.5 hour wait time, down to just
30 minutes. Getting the correct medication to patients faster has improved
patient outcomes and reduced the rate of readmission.

With the Loxone
iPhone app you can access, monitor and control your home from anywhere.

A food distribution company can use sensors in trucks
that send temperatures, humidity; point to point travel times back to data
center for further analysis.

Today's tech-savvy consumers have the option to
shop whenever and wherever they want, including on mobile devices.

Retailers have lot of use of IoT & Big data. They
can measure the real time customer traffic in & out of store with video
cameras, current queue lengths, historical transaction data & footfall data
to predict how many more checkouts to be opened. This helps improve the
customer experience.

Airbus A380 has sensors that monitor the wear and
tear of the flight in real time which helps in preventive maintenance of parts
before they fail, reduce the warranty costs and increase operational efficiency.

As IoT becomes mainstream, it can play a big role
into areas such as supply chain management. When customers' preferences or
needs can be tracked in real time, businesses have the opportunity to react
accordingly and immediately, with options such as dynamic messaging, pricing,
or service delivery.